You must attend a private school. My public schooling on Hamilton & co. was "Founding Father thus = Perfection".
I attend a very, very public school. Our textbook/AP test puts it that way actually. It's too easy to pass any prominent figure s perfect, when you've created such a cloud of significance 'round yourself you're bound to slip up here and there. Or, like, get shot in a duel and stuff.
You're in your senior year, then. Imagine things a decade later, when you're looking back upon your youth's schooling, and if you haven't continued your study of American history, things start to get hazy. I did take AP History, so I vaguely recall that I was taught some of the intricacies of Hamilton's bullshit, but the other 10 years of warm-and-fuzzy, feel-good American public-school/borderline-propaganda tend to dominate the brain. I do recall the Burr duel though, because that was straight up memorable. This problem is likely magnified in my case, as I've tended towards math and science pursuits, and the "use it or lose it" adage is always applicable to anyone's knowledge base. This has devolved into an old geezer style type comment, but yeah. I got a 4 on my AP History test 10 years ago, and I hardly remember a damn thing except for the fact that I got some college credits for knowing some things, once. I won't externalize all the blame to booze or pot (though I do enjoy flipping the bird to inanimate objects). Instead I'll mostly blame my own shitty judgement. I'd just like to point out that the capacity of the human brain is certainly finite, and everyone eventually runs out of neural pathways. Except for kleinbl00, fuck that guy/humanoid. I'm not going to tag him, since it's his birthday, and he/it should have the day off.